Camp Fun Facts
Victoria's favorite sport
What is field hockey?
Two kinds of airplanes we built on Day 1
What are: paper airplane, loop airplane with the straw?
One way to make our planes fly farther (many answers)
What is: adding weight, changing shape, etc.?
Two things that sink & two things that float (many answers)
What are: rocks, metal, paperclips, etc? & styrofoam, balloons, bubbles, wood, etc?
Two passengers on the mega boat (several answers)
What is: Mr. Sheep, Mad-Eye Moody, etc?
Jack's favorite sport
What is American football?
The four forces experienced by airplanes
What are: thrust, drag, lift, weight?
One way they make stealth planes avoid detection that is NOT absorbing electromagnetic radiation (many answers)
What are: straight edges, flat bodies, etc?
Two things that are waterproof & two things that are NOT waterproof (many answers)
What are: plastic, aluminum foil, etc. & paper, cotton, etc?
Two shapes for bottoms of boats (many answers)
The song we did the sit-ups to yesterday during warmup
What is Old Town Road?
the move-it time we did to practice the four forces experienced by planes (describe)
What is pretending to be an airplane and having one of us shout the four forces and doing them?
The reasoning behind echolocation / SONAR / radar
What is: sending out a wave and waiting for it to bounce back and calculating distance?
Density
What is: mass divided by volume, how tightly-packed molecules are in an object?
The name of the body of the boat
What is the hull?
Victoria and Jack's college majors
What are biology and chemistry?
the steps of the engineering process (naming a few is fine)
What is: developing a question, making a model, testing a model, thinking of improvements, repeating the cycle?
The concept behind why the paper lifted up when we blew on it
What is air pressure?
the Archimedes' Principle / explain buoyancy
What is: the weight of the displaced water is the buoyant force that can lift the thing that's floating?
effect of putting soap on the paper boat in the water AND why
What is: the boat moved quickly forwards because the surface tension was broken?
Jack's favorite water-related activity
What is going on amphibious vehicles?
the steps of the scientific method (naming a few is fine)
What is: having a question, developing a hypothesis, experimentation / data collection, data collection, analysis, conclusion?
The paint coating used on planes that can absorb electromagnetic radiation to prevent detection
What is iron ball paint?
The reason why boats float
What is: being less dense than water due to large area and lots of air, displacing a large amount of water?
surface tension
What is: the water molecules at the top of the water want to stick together so it takes energy to break them apart?